I do still find it amusing that from the almost exact moment he made his first public statement about FFXI for years (all his previous public statements were about FFXIV) the updates turned craptastic and stayed that way...and will continue to stay that way for future updates it seems.

For a while it was like we were customers and they were trying to make us like the game by fixing the issues we all had, then it was back to the play it or gtfo. They were so attentive for a while that the difference now is astounding lol

EMP Nms overcamped you say? we will fix that. *adds 2 more ???* Still too much? *adds more KI to boxes*, +2 items too hard to get? *adds +2 items to vastly more NMs*, relics not powerful enough? *vastly increases the power of relic upgrades with far less work to boot* HNM need to be fixed? *makes 3 kings force pop", Worried we are nerfing jobs? "we want to bring all jobs up not nerf, don't fear!"

Fast forward.

VNM drop system is horrible and everyone hates it you say? "Too bad suckers, working at intended."